Featured Poet
Event: Beit e’Shai Sunday Teahouse Session #1
Time: 5.00 pm – 7.00pm
Date: Sunday 17th November 2024
Venue: Beit e’Shai Pop-up Teahouse & Gallery, 372 high Street, Preston, Victoria 3072
Cost: Free for Aboriginal friends and community; sliding scale tickets + tea on arrival
Open Mic
Event: Radio Laria
Time: 7.30 – 9.45 pm
Date: Wednesday 6th November 2024
Venue: Open Studio, 204 High Street, Northcote, 3070
Cost: $5 – $10
Beyond the Page Poetry Workshop with Indrani Perera
Do you find it hard to put your feelings into words? Are you struggling to find ideas? Has the muse left you and inspiration fled? Are you stuck in a rut with your writing — revisiting the same metaphors and line breaks again and again?
It’s time to neurohack your writing and get out of your poetry rut!
In this two hour workshop with Indrani Perera, author of pas de deux and editor of the Pocketry Almanack, you’ll learn how to get out of your head and creep into the cracks by exploring the spaces in between. Through exercises and writing prompts you will:
- use movement and drawing as part of your writing practice and to access different parts of the brain.
- write poems from different points of view, including insects and inanimate objects.
- write using senses other than sight — especially those of sound and hearing.
Bring your child-like self, a sense of adventure and a willingness to play!
Proudly part of Sonic Poetry Festival 2024: poetry that sounds like all of us.
Event: Sonic Poetry Festival 2024
Time: 10.30.00am – 12.30pm AEST
Date: Saturday 7th September 2024
Venue: Activity Room 2, Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre
Address: 251 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Cost: $30
Featured Poet
Event: Perc.u.lations
Time: 3.00 pm
Date: Saturday 10th August 2024
Venue: Kafé on Hemmings, 86 Hemmings Street Dandenong, Victoria
Cost: pay as you feel
Open Mic
Event: Cherry Tree Poets
Time: 1.30 pm
Date: Saturday 6th July 2024
Venue: Cherry Tree Hotel, 53 Balmain street, Cremorne, Vic 3121
Cost: free
Open Mic
Event: Radio Laria
Time: 7.30 – 9.45 pm
Date: Wednesday 3rd July 2024
Venue: Open Studio, 204 High Street, Northcote, 3070
Cost: $5 – $10
Open Mic
Event: Cherry Tree Poets
Time: 1.30 pm
Date: Saturday 29th June 2024
Venue: Cherry Tree Hotel, 53 Balmain street, Cremorne, Vic 3121
Cost: free
Open Mic
Event: LittleFoot & Co
Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Thursday 16th May 2024
Venue: Bunjil Place, 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, 3805
Cost: free
Featured Poet
Event: Festival Finale, Perth Poetry Festival 2023
Organiser: WA Poets Inc
Time: 6.30 pm
Date: Sunday 17th September 2023
Venue: Switch Theatre, 555 Wellington Street, Perth, 6000
Cost: $15 conc, $20 full
Featured Poet
Event: Crossing Borders – A Multicultural Soirée, Perth Poetry Festival 2023
Organiser: WA Poets Inc
Time: 7.00 – 8.00 pm
Date: Saturday 16th September 2023
Venue: Planet Royale, 12 Lake Street, Northbridge, 6003
Cost: $15 conc, $20 full
Featured Poet
Time: 2.00 – 4.00 pm
Date: Saturday 16th September 2023
Venue: Moon Cafe, 2/323 William Street, Northbridge, 6003
Cost: by donation
Beyond the Page – A Liminal Spaces Workshop with Indrani Perera
Get out of your head and creep into the cracks with a workshop that explores the spaces in between. Bring your child-like self, a sense of adventure and a willingness to play. Through movement, sound and drawing you’ll discover how to write poems that move beyond the page.
As a tool to tap into those spaces between our thoughts, this workshop will also explore different ways of using pen and paper. Bring along any art supplies that feel inspiring (coloured pencils, textas, watercolour paints, pastels) as well as journals, sheets of blank paper etc. It’s an excuse to go wild in the stationery section!
Event: Perth Poetry Festival 2023
Organiser: WA Poets Inc
Time: 9.00 – 11.00am AWST
Date: Saturday 16th September 2023
Venue: Centre for Stories. 100 Aberdeen St, Northbridge, WA
Cost: $25-35
Featured Poet
Event: Festival Gala, Perth Poetry Festival 2023
Organiser: WA Poets Inc
Time: 7.00 pm
Date: Thursday 14th September 2023
Venue: Planet Royale, 12 Lake Street, Northbridge, 6003
Cost: $25 conc, $30 full
Open Mic
Event: LittleFoot & Co
Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Tuesday 20th June 2023
Venue: Bunjil Place, 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, 3805
Cost: free
Open Mic
Event: LittleFoot & Co
Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Thursday 25th May 2023
Venue: Bunjil Place, 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, 3805
Cost: free
Workshop
Event: Word Play
Time: 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Date: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Venue: Harkaway, Victoria
Cost: $15 per student
Anthology Launch
Event: Shoot the Breeze anthology at Radio Laria
Time: 7.00 – 9.30 pm
Date: Wednesday 1st Feburary 2023
Venue: Open Studio,204 High Street, Northcote, 3070
Cost: 0 – $15
Open Mic
Event: Mothertongue
Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Friday 9th September 2022
Venue: The Crucible, Fairfield Uniting Church, Fairfield
Cost: 0 – $15
Featured Poet
Event: Girls On Key Featuring Indrani Perera and Helen Bradwell
Time: 7.00 – 9.30 pm
Date: Wednesday 7th July 2021
Venue: Open Studio, 204 High Street, Northcote, 3070
Cost: $11.50 / $9.00 (only 30 available)
Open Mic
Event: P-Word Sessions
Time: 4.00 pm
Date: Sunday 4th July 2021
Venue: Mötely Bauhaus, 102 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North
Cost: free (donation to support the Motley Bauhaus’s relocation)
Open Mic
Event: P-Word Sessions
Time: 4.00 pm
Date: Sunday 2nd May 2021
Venue: Mötely Bauhaus, 102 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North
Cost: $5 cover charge
Open Mic
Event: Littlefoot & Company
Time: 7.45 pm
Date: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Venue: Bunjil Place Studio, Narre Warren
Cost: Free
Book Launch
Book: pas de deux by Indrani Perera
Time: 7.00 pm
Date: Tuesday 30th March 2021
Venue: Zoom
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6014563938
RSVP: hello@indraniperera.com by 23 March 2021
Open Mic
Event: Littlefoot & Company
Time: 7.45 pm
Date: Thursday 11th March 2021
Venue: Bunjil Place Studio, Narre Warren
Cost: Free
Open Mic
Event: P-Word Sessions
Time: 4.00 pm
Date: Sunday 7th February 2021
Venue: Mötely Bauhaus, 102 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North
Cost: $5 cover charge
Promoting Your Poetry Workshop
You’ve written a book. Yay you! Now what? This workshop will show you how to promote your poetry online and in person so that people will learn about you and want to buy your work.
You’ll learn how to create an online presence, how to find a writing community and how to build your reputation and get your work known by fellow poets. The workshop will also touch on branding and creating promotional materials. Promoting Your Poetry is aimed at poets but the content applies to all writers seeking to promote themselves.
Facilitator: Indrani Perera
Organiser: Melbourne Spoken Word Festival Online
Time: 2.00pm AEST
Date: Saturday 1st August 2020
Venue: Online
Cost: $20
Podcast
Event: Words Out Loud – Melbourne Spoken Word Festival Online Edition
Organiser: Words Out Loud Ballarat
Date: from 30 July 2020
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Poetry Slam
Event: Get It Out There Poetry Slam
Organiser: Art Is… Festival
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm
Date: Thursday 25th June 2020
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Featured Poet
Event: Fresh Voices for Melbourne Spoken Word Poetry Festival
Time: 6.30 – 9.30 pm
Date: Wednesday 17th July 2019
Venue: Bargoonga Nganjin, 182-186 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North
Cost: free